Why EVLG
Most funded technology companies pick a patent attorney once, and then live with that choice through years of prosecution, several financing rounds, and eventually a sale. Evergreen Valley Law Group is built for that kind of client: a founder or engineering team whose patent portfolio has to hold up under investor and acquirer scrutiny, not just survive an office action.
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We Think Like Investors, Not Just Filing Attorneys
Founder Kanika Radhakrishnan is a Harvard-trained patent attorney and an active startup investor who has backed more than 25 early-stage deep tech companies across the U.S., India, and Europe. Her clients' portfolios have contributed to more than $1.1B in combined exit value, and intellectual property has accounted for 40% to 50% of that deal value. That investor seat changes how EVLG drafts claims. A patent has to do more than clear examination; it also has to matter to the person doing diligence on the other side of a term sheet or an acquisition.
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We Operate as One Team Across San Jose and Bangalore
EVLG is headquartered in San Jose, California, with a second office in Bangalore. Many of the tech companies we work with have engineering teams, co-founders, or manufacturing partners in India. At any other firm, coordinating a filing strategy across two time zones normally would be where things slow down. Because our own attorneys work across both countries and time zones, our clients get one team handling both sides, instead of a U.S. firm managing a separate Indian associate at arm's length.
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A Filing Record You Can Check
Kanika Radhakrishnan has overseen more than 5,000 patent filings with an 87% grant rate. She also advises accelerators, incubators, and early-stage venture funds on IP defensibility, the same diligence standard a portfolio needs to meet before a fundraise, a valuation, or a merger or acquisition. Before founding EVLG, Kanika was a patent litigator at Morrison & Foerster, which is part of why EVLG drafts claims with an eye toward how they would hold up if they were ever challenged in court, not only whether they would clear an examiner. Clients whose patents we've worked on have gone on to be acquired by companies including Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Google.
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We Know the Technology We're Patenting
EVLG's attorneys work across computer networking, internet technologies, big data, AI and machine learning, blockchain, database technology, electronic circuitry, software, medical devices, and cleantech. That range matters at the drafting stage. An attorney who doesn't understand the underlying engineering tends to under-claim or over-claim, and either mistake is expensive to fix once an application is already on file.
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Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights Under One Roof
EVLG’s team does it all. For a startup, this is usually simpler than coordinating between a patent firm and a separate trademark or copyright attorney, and it means your brand and your technology are handled by attorneys who truly understand the ins and outs of your business.
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We Adjust to Your Stage
A pre-seed founder filing a first provisional application needs something different from a Series B company building a defensive portfolio ahead of acquisition talks. We don't run both through the same playbook. EVLG works with clients from first-time founders through Fortune 500 companies managing large portfolios, and we adjust our approach and the budget conversation to match.
